M. L. Senderling – The Spirituelle of Matter, Energy, All Divine, is, Life, God the All in All

 

FOREWORD

As to the why, and the conditions under which this theory of “The Spirituelle of Matter” is offered to take a place in the creative thought of humanity, as an aid to refute by indisputable evidence the gross absurdi­ties of a bald and vague materialism. The basis of this theory rests upon the evidences of a universal, or unitive, Energy “Knowable” through its operations and culminating in effects; an inference arrived at by induction from the one fact, that there is no indication of a self-generative energy anywhere in Nature.

I wish to criticise a tendency of scientists, especially Spencer, of “setting up straw men” (figuratively) in order to “knock them down,” and thus to gain the eclat of the superficial and of the Philistines of knowl­edge.

I desire also to make a plea for a rugged, vigorous manhood, una­fraid to stand up to the consequences due to his own wrongful deeds, by accepting without flinching that which is his due without pleading the “baby-act;” an act to which a deaf ear is ever turned by inexorable Na­ture when a man is found guilty—knowingly or not—of violating her laws.

The convenient “namby-pambyism” of the day, to avoid the appear­ance of a “fuss,” is an indication of a canker beginning its attack on the vital processes upon which alone human ideals can become established. The absolute obedience to normal authority is the ideal, and if recognized as under the law of suasion by love—well! that is the highest and best. But there are some characters who have not arrived at that goal and need the more vigorous discipline of must, until Will conforms and meets the re­quirements of Law.

The writer grew up, from an early age, to exclusively commercia and industrial pursuits, having a limited experience in the fundamentals of education, yet possessing a fair degree of the faculty of observation and in early manhood strengthened his power of concentration of thought by de­veloping new forms of machinery whereby to install better methods along mechanical and industrial lines.

This occupation has been, moreover, favorable in creating an inter­est’which put him en rapport with anything that bears upon better methods of arriving at practical results. His interest has not been confined to me­chanical lines alone, but has broadened out into other lines of thought, con­ditioned, however, upon the same essential characteristics of accuracy de­manded by mechanical necessities in order to insure the desired effect and further that those thoughts have strengthened the belief that there exists a reason for every condition as well as for the means by which those condi­tions are brought about.

I have used, therefore, such language as seems to express the thought in mind most clearly; trusting that others may strike at, or, criti­cise the theory underlying the thought rather than the language, except that any suggestion as to it will be exceedingly welcome where it can pre­sent the thought more clearly to others.

I wish to state here a fact in favor of the habit of early observation and reflection; that this theory was originally suggested while at the sea­shore by desultory thoughts as to the many “properties” of water and of air, which thoughts extended also to other objects, as the fruits of the earth, their manner of production, &c., as suggested to me from an expe­rience when a small country boy.

This treatment of the subject should in no way be considered as a treatise, but as a statement of facts under personal experience and observa­tion, with deductions therefr om.

One more thought as bearing upon the entire subject:

It is the effort toward making the corporeal and spiritual natures of human existence to co-ordinate with their respective types, that gives Re­ligion its Sanction to demand that they be obedient to the laws of their re­lationships, as of Type to Type—a process which calls for the ever active consideration of the mental and moral faculties of the human race in order to fulfill their obligations under those relationships which none have a right to evade.

THE AUTHOR

 

THE SPIRITUELLE OF MATTER

Startling? Not if we can Comprehend its Significance!

In offering the following thoughts upon a new theory as to matter, with arguments in support thereof, I realize that it is difficult to make the thought clear by use of any existing ety­mology to express what I mean by “ Qualities ” of Matter, as this etymology has also a common significance, and likewise I realize that a coined word not of general recognition might also fail to be understood.

I therefore state that what I mean by “ Qualities ” of Matter is that something ever constant with Matter and insep­arable from it, which admits of no analysis, either physically or psychologically[1], and yet is an all controlling factor in the operations of Nature which I choose to call the Spirituelle (Qualities) of Matter as entirely distinct from the material elements of “Atoms ” or of “ions,” etcetera.

I fully believe that these two elements exist in all matter, “Qualities” as being the Energy endowed upon all elements of Matter, and atoms, ions, electrons, or other infinitessimal divis­ions of matter as the vehicles, which under the excitationt of that Energy, create all the known forces in Nature.

[1] Copying an illustrious example, it might be called a part of, or, a reflex of* “THE UNKNOWABLE.”

[1] Interaction, due to variant content in degrees of energy constituting correlated forms, and, which lay dormant therein?

[1] As phenomena, or, as resultant effects.

THE SPIRITUELLE OF MATTER

To Expand the Following Postulate.

‘ ‘Qualities of Matter ” is that something ever constant with matter and inseparable from it.”

To be distinguished from “ Properties” of Matter in this, that “the term properties, as applied to bodies, we understand the different ways in which bodies present themselves to our senses,” while the term “Qualities ” convey a deeper signifi­cance than a material sense—consciousness; involving as the term does, a sense of comparison of ultimate elements and of their origin ; a power which is wholly outside of all physical sensation.

That “something” comprises the basic element of every form of matter and characterizes its ultra or subliminal parts that can by any means be made apparent to man’s physical or mental sense.[1] As matter is comprised of many variant forms, and whereas they are all found to be susceptible to the one single influence which characterizes them all, it seems to empha­size the thought that they are of one primary origin, and inas­much as that characteristic (susceptability) in all of them causes, under favorable conditions, a display of energy, we must conclude that every atom of matter is permeated with a poten­tial which requires some slight or other disturbance of its equil­ibrium which also characterizes every element of matter in its normal or inert condition as dormant energy.

Keeping in mind these two facts, a potential and inertia, we may here state a third condition as being evident in the fact that matter is of so many forms having varying degrees of potential that we may assume that therein lies one chief (I might say automatic one in the physical cosmos) element to cause a disturbance of the equilibrium, and hence a display of energy. And further, that, as the law of physics is that you cannot get something out of anything which it has not received, one must conclude that that display of energy is due to an excitation of some sort by which the equilibrium of that poten­tial which exists within every form of matter was broken and that energy was released which always lies dormant in every part of matter until disturbed from outside of itself.

As to the fact that matter is of so many forms, and that all have had one origin, based upon the equilibration of ether- ial or Spiritual (there is no other name for it, and one may be in this case substituted for the other,) energy; it may be assumed that that energy produced those etherial vibrations under various degrees of intensity which upon coming to equil­ibrium produced the various elementary atoms of matter for the purpose of, or as resulting in their equilibration, and hence as lying dormant in the elements of which that energy was the sole progenitor; its form (charactor of atoms) constituting its content for that which energy had been expended in exact dole.

This may be merely a speculative theory, but no more so than that of electrons as a secondary force, being considered as the basis of atoms.

However, we have an untold variety of elementary atoms in many varieties of combinations, which go to make up the universe of matter, and yet each element and each combination possess that characteristic “something” which may be called its potential (simply stored energy) which we have called in the title of this article the Spirituelle of Matter, and further along have illustrated as its “Qualities.” In other words, we may designate them either as “ Qualities of Matter ” or as qualities (degrees) of Energy, or, the Spirituelle of Matter as embodied in substance yet forming no part of substance and yet as its sole vitalizing principle. That substance is anything which can be identified and classified by name or number, as Air, Water, Earth, coal etcetera, or their constituent elements, all of which are stored with energy of various degrees, therefore inherent therein and which I have called the “ Qualities of Matter.”

It is these inherent qualities of matter, or, degrees of energy, upon which all physical forces depend; for without them there could be no motion among the component elements of matter, and I do not hesitate to say that without them no matter could have come into existence; for I believe that Science will come to the conviction that matter is but the result of the equilibrations of the various degrees of intensity of the vibrations of energy, and that these “qualities” of their respect­ive forms of matter denote their dormant energy, and that it is these “qualities” (or, what would be the same thin^ under a better or more distinctive name) of matter which was^ndowed with the power of resistance to motion and thereby to effect the equilibration of energy as creative, or, vibrant volitions.

These all energizing Volitions have incontrovertibly arisen from a creative and co-ordinating power that can alone account for the exact balance which obtains throughout the material universe, subject alone to a reciprocal action brought about by a “disturbance” between the variant atoms of matter equilibriated from varying degrees of vibrations, at their in­ception and which difference in the degrees of those vibrations can most likely account for the “disturbance” between the va­riant qualities of matter, and which causes all the manifesta­tions that are taking place in physical nature and also by which the law of their operations, and limitations, were “determined,” —i. e., determined by the co-efficient of the variant degrees at the exact point at which the equilibrations of energy took place in forming the subliminal and variant elements of matter.

But “matter” alone is not our only concern, for there is an “energy” lying dormant in all matter, from an energy which has called that matter to an existence and which is supreme over all matter, to which it is logically consistent to ascribe the character of a Pure Will or Volition knowing no limitations as to space, or time, nor of power. That will, that power,^v is that unitive energy of which all Creation is the sentient evidence, and, the spirit endowed upon man is the crowning, or spiritual evidence.—A pity, too, that there exists a spiritual “resist­ance, ’ ’ as that there exists a physical resistance to an element of that energy; but possibly it is a wise provision—to call forth the highest efforts of our nature, or to manifest a wider scope of that energy towards mankind as of a wise and beneficent” Being.

Of this Volition or Will we have a display throughout all the phases of nature as localized Energy from the highest type of beings to the lowest order of inorganic things as the moving power throughout nature upon the elements of matter which through their co-ordination absolutely respond to like vibrations or the reflex thereof, that have caused their formation under the processes of equilibration of their respective generic ener­gies, and, which reflex energies remain dormant and all pervad­ing within the various inert forms of matter as pre-ordained by creative power for things inorganic; but as a free energy in the organic.

This dormancy of the (or rather, within the) inorganic is absolute until those qualities from any cause become aggres­sively attacked from outside of themselves, that is, some excitation between variant hence unbalanced potentials.

The order of Nature has provided that cause, which is being demonstrated everywhere in nature in such manner as to be not only constant but automatic in their operations.

I have farther along given an illustration involving at least four general objects whose respective qualities co-oper­ate and co-ordinate to produce one of the most powerful and useful forces in nature—Electricity — “electrons” probably being its incipient stage.

Those four objects are opaque matter; transparent mat­ter; translucent matter; and matter which by co-ordination of many qualities of various forms of matter give out illuminating energy.

Those four objects as forms of matter are the solid mat­ter of our globe; Air, Water, and the blazing Sun of our Solar system; which I may here state as entering into all the opera­tions of nature under Natural Law: the entire operations of which take place upon the release of the dormant energies stored up in their every constituent element but released only therefrom in exact requirement for every operation of nature; that is, to supply all Physical forces just as they are required— no more, no less.

Now, this fact is positive progf that there exists nowhere in physical nature any free or immfyient force, or energy.

As these energies lie dormant in all matter and as it was through the equilibration of these energies, as degrees of vibra­tions, of one supreme energy that was the cause of forms of matter, it cannot be said that matter has either evolved itself, nor, that it is the primary cause of energy.

A child is not father to its own father—at least it is not so in the physical world, however it may be to delusions of some minds.

But to pursue our table of matter that are stored with dormant energies which I call “qualities” of matter and which perhaps may be the better recognized through the uses to which they are or may be devoted, as may suggest themselves to those who use, or, are familiar with them.

Coal; Wood; Iron; Stone; Sand; Clay; Natural food grains of various kinds: Vegetables; Fruits; and the like—all of which have their specific “qualities” in order to fulfill the designed purpose.

Some of these release their energies at the will and pleas­ure of man; others release their energies to sustain the physical energies of man’s physical life, which life forever after directs all those energies derived from matter consumed, to the sus­taining of his physical existence—and, for What?

This “What!” should make every one pause and think —from “Whence” this generic energy, which, through its equilibrations produced every form of matter and left its own proportional element stored up within it to be drawn upon ac­cording to human needs.

Also to think what was essential that that generic energy should consist of as to its characteristics, etcetera. We can­not apply the same characteristic to it as we do to matter, be­cause it is above matter, for it created matter and it would not do to speak of it as qualities, for one would not speak of that great energy in man—his mind—as the quality of his body, for it would not be true, as it is the only thing of value in his whole body, but it gives us a subject for comparison over and above all physical things—in the relation of type to Type.

We are therefore justified in classing that Supreme initia­tive energy as Supreme Mind. An “attribute,” it is true, but related to all existence. It can be nothing less. There is no profit in quibbling over superlatives proper to be known, nor of those “unknowable,” to speak of which is to imply attributes.

This “Infinite Mind” has endowed all (physical) ele­ments of matter with their special “qualities” to contribute to the support and comfort of sentient beings, and, as objects of study and appropriation to active use, through the understand­ing of them as shown by the power of co-ordination by that part of man’s nature which is the undoubted reflex of that In­finite mind; because there can be no other possible origin from whence the mind of man could arise having the power of retro­spection and of analysis of like things by^ike things and from the past to plan a path for his future—barring only his control over his physical life, and because things of like nature can have only one origin. All nature emphasizes these truths.

It was ordained that all things should obey the law of their being—Spiritual beings to obey the Spiritual law and physical things the laws of Nature, and man’s dual nature to obey the laws of both.

Amid the searchings by scientists as to what matter con­sists of elementarily, they have altogether overlooked its func­tion, or what it was designed to do amid all the activities of nature, its prime characteristic having been hitherto referred to as its inertia (physical elements, regardless of their ‘ ‘quali­ties” which are confluent in the wliole mass and whose energy on being brought to equilibrium created those storage batteries of inert potential to conserve energy to be released only as brought into co-operation and co-ordination under natural law), whereas it should have always been considered as the store­house of energy though lying dormant therein, but which un­der excitation from other or exterior forms, providing the foundation for the operation of natural law, pour out that en­ergy in prodigious volumes.

The operations in nature began before evolution could begin its work—that is, they began by the formation of the physical elements of all matter, after which, by the necessities of the situation natural law was brought under subservience to the law of preparation for its operation.

Natural Law was therefore the creature of preparation for it, and was instituted to rule immutably in the physical uni­verse, in obedience to the ordained means—That which philoso­phy calls “determinism.”

Those “means” imply Creation by an All Supreme and intelligent Being. No other than God!

Well it would be that all men should live in “Conscious­ness of God” who made them after His own image, to be like unto Him in power, intelligence, righteousness and love in so far as man can attain unto His perfections by living ever in that consciousness of Him through practice of our honest con­ception of the perfect man, the best aids to which are the reve­lations He has made to man in His word, which if a man cannot accept in all good conscience he is. blinded to the clearest Light.

Blessed are they that do His will—A law of privilege and love that never has yet failed!

But to return to the evidences of “The Spirituelle of Matter” in its fundamental bearing upon the dual relation of man to his divine origin; as evidenced by the fact that the en­tire realm of nature is working to the emphasizing of his con­nection with the source of all energy which is ever endowing him with power and aspirations; sometime, somehow and some­where to be fully realized in each several personality and which is to be determined by that personality when brought into unison with the laws governing his dual nature—the high­est obligation resting upon spiritual law (conformity to type), or authority.

QUALITIES OF MATTER

The “qualities” of matter are of such a diversified nature that while they in no degree cross each other’s lines, as to their special characteristics, they are still so wisely consti­tuted as to be capable of entering into the “unknowable” combinations by which the most complex as well as the simplest atoms and ions of matter have, under the laws of nature, taken on form; whether those forms consist of basic atoms, or, ions and their relative subdivisions developing into dependent germs or protoplasm of a single world system, or, into the complex constitution of the universe.

The complete order under which natural laws operate demand that the source of those qualities emanate from one source.

My contention is, that “qualities” of matter do not pos­sess any physical character such as can be detected by a physi­cal analysis of matter to the utmost limit of its (matter) composite elements, whether under simple or complex forms.

That is, when we combine elements each possessing its own peculiar “quality,” all those qualities coalesce in determin­ing the special nature or form of the combination and upon the resolving of that combination all its elements resume their separate or identical qualities, showing that ⁴ ‘qualities, ’ ’ quan­titatively, leave no physical evidence of their existence, when at the same time they have caused the most convincing evidence of their existence through their effects.

Now, if an analysis of matter leaves no physical resi­duum of “quality” capable of separation from its elements, although it alone permits said elements to enter into combina­tion, quality cannot be said to be of a physical nature or origin.

Now, inasmuch as no element or other form of matter can move itself (this gives the factor of stability to forms) and yet as all matter is everywhere in motion, there must exist an explanation of the cause of universal activity in the realm of Nature.

Again, the undoubted evidence that all organic matter has had its origin from an impalpable state or condition (so im­palpable that the light from the most distant stars suffers no obscuration to our naked vision) this in connection with the utter inertia of every form of matter, shows that before matter began to take on form there could not have existed any laws of physics (natural laws) to control or direct the incipent oper­ations by which nature could evolve matter (out) from its etherial state.

Again, Natural Law if self-controlling must have been established after Nature was complete in all its varied forms in­stead of having its initial operations guided by law, and because all natural law depends for its operations upon the already in­herent “qualities” of the elements of matter through their sole controlling influence, which, by means of their spontaneous ac­tions and interactions (while matter itself would otherwise re­main inert) are the direct casus-belli of all the forces of nature operating under natural law.

Such a condition demands a progenitor for the elements of matter ( having no historic past) which “in the beginning” had no existence either as “atoms” or “ions.”

Again, if life exists under our material existence, which has required a material preparation for its manifestation, while at the same time there is no inherent principle of life embodied in matter nor in any of its combinations, on what grounds do scientists (materialists) contend that life is an evolution out of matter per se which is absolutely inert except as the varied qualities of matter enable it to enter into reciprocal relations, and in which those qualities have no physico-analytical status? Why, therefore, should lifejbegin its existence after matter has become prepared for its manifestation, at the same time leaving the question unexplained as to the reason why its various qual­ities which, being other than matter (that is, of a different na­ture ) are automatically affected, under favoring conditions, to act and react upon^each other to cause a disturbance amoj^ its atoms and thus to create all the known forces in nature un­der natural law and by which all changes and combinations, both simple and complex, take plade: That is in order to ^ provide the media of its manifestations, the way had to be prepared for life’s physical relation in its new modes of motion (its physical manifestations) in order to co-ordinate with the elements of its own distinct spiritual entity differentiated by its limitations as degrees of one Supreme Life.**

Were it not for these “qualities’’ of matter which were endowed upon matter and existing prior to it in a different field than matter, there would have existed no effective force by which the changes and combinations of matter could take place.

As elementary matter has a purely material existence and is hence totally inert, no forces can be generated by it and hence no motion can take place except some other agency outside of matter be exerted upon it and to lie dormant therein in order to give to matter the dynamic force essential to initiate that mo­tion. This agency in no wise can be classed among material elements and yet is the sole dependence, or agency which can effect any or all material changes, or combinations among the elements of matter.

That operative agency is the varied “qualities” which completely permeate while actually forming no constituent part of the elements of matter and which never lose the least trace of their elemental qualities although followed out in many com­plex relations with “qualities” of diverse elements: i. e., unity of origin.

These ‘ ‘qualities’ ’ of matter although permeating it lie dor­mant within matter until brought into effective opposition (ap­position and co-ordination) with other “qualities” of matter of attractive or repelling nature to excite action and reaction be­tween said elements when, lo, we find Kinetic action is dev­eloped and forces are generated under the operation of natural law due not to physical causes, primarily, but to the operation of immaterial or ephemeral causes consisting of the non-ma­terial elements of the varied “qualities” which permeate every element of matter from outside the sphere of matter as from the one source, which has created or, brought into existence every form of matter by its own fiat, and “charged” it as a battery with its own special vitalizing “qualities” as from an all unifying, Supreme Energy.

Science has based a theory of the creation of matter (it surely had its genesis some time, some how) upon direct ⁴ ‘elec­tric generation;” but who ever sensed (physically or psychologi­cally) electrical energy dissociated from material agencies upon which that energy (electric) must depend for its own existence?

In presenting this theory of the “qualities” of matter as being the true explanation of the operations of nature and the keystone of natural law my argument is intended to illus­trate the necessity of recognition of some adequate cause for a material existence which its own nature proves did not nor could not come into being of itself and thus, by the inductive method, to point out that the only alternative cause for exist­ence consists in this fact (which all Science must finally acknowledge as the ultimate cause of all being) that all matter must have a spiritual and not a materialistic origin; not only because of the inertia of every primary element of matter and the need for its generation before it could have an existence but much the more—that matter can neither create itself nor syn­chronise life nor intelligence, and hence the final conclusion :— that as life and intelligence, as we have a shadowy conception of it by our experience, exists now, it must have had an exist­ence eternally—that is, before the first atom of matter came into existence.

Nor is this theory of the Spirituelle (immaterial) nature of the “qualities ” of matter to be in any degree considered as a sort of animism, spiritism, pantheism, nor much the less as any foundation for a cult which denies the earthly standards of our material existence.

It is hiowever, intended to show the absolute necessity for every form of existence as being dependent upon a Being who is the “All and in All,” and outside of whom there could have been no existence, and who, according to a purpose, cre­ated the heavens and the earth” by his fiat in calling matter out of nothing in its varied elemental forms and endowing each with its specific “qualities ” to lay as dormant energies therein until fully prepared to enter each in its own sphere into the upbuilding of worlds and systems as per a divine plan founded upon natural law which itself is based solely upon the dormant energies as “qualities ” stored up in the elements of matter to be released under the operations of natural law; which was, therefore, the result of a divine act as the outcome thereof and hence all existence in the field of nature has its origin in God.

In considering the Qualities of Matter as non-material elements by which alone all the elements of matter are con­trolled and every operation in nature takes place and through which operations all known physical forces are generated, while there has never been found, nor ever will, one single existing self-acting force throughout the entire domain of Nature, we are led to the study of said qualities and the rea­sons for their existence and to account for their origin as ema­nating from the source of a many sided energy as manifested in all the works of Nature. It is surely inconceivable that there can be any change in the relative position of the atoms or in the status of the ions (its radiating element) of matter except they be induced through the qualities, by which they are endowed, being susceptible to and influenced by the outly­ing qualities of other atoms or ions being brought into opposi­tion and co-ordination. These are caused to operate in nature automatically by reason of the laws of nature founded by a supreme energy dominating all space and actuated by a divine purpose and controlled by a divine power as the basis of a uni­versal energy in both the material and spiritual universe as the “All in All.”

The helplessness of Science (by the law of elimination) to show a self-acting and universal force anywhere in nature except tlUy arise out from these non-material qualities, which no physical Science can^ explain, proves the necessity SC accounting for their source* namely, that they must have arisen outside of all material influences in order that the material things may be brought to occupy the voids of space and a sys­tem and system systems developed out of material things which bespeak the power and glory of infinite Power and of Him alone.

This conception can only apply as to our restricted com­prehension of Divine Power but when humanity becomes im­mortal and garbed in its glorified form how much vaster will be its conception through a realization, full and complete, of that power and glory—for “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things that God hath prepared for them who love Him”—also now as well as then.

We therefore deduce corrollaries from the foregoing facts:

First—That matter of all kinds as we know it in its phys­ical state did not originally exist in any material form.

Second—That at a stage of non-existence, matter could not spring out from itself by any physical law.

Third—As material forms do exist and inasmuch as they could not have sprung out from a stage of non-existence in the absence of physical laws it must be plain that they have arisen through an agency that is not physical.

Fourth—When we see such bountiful evidence in this material existence of the glory and intelligence that has crowned all material existence and of its dominating power over matter one can fully realize that the actual dependence for existence of all material things must be attributed to a source whose like­ness has been so marvellously displayed in the human race limited though it be by its material cell and that only for a short period of time as compared to an eternity for its unlim­ited exercise.

The vital principle possessing those cells may, to a very minute degree, as of an act but not of substance be likened to the qualities of matter all of which have sprung out from one vitalizing energy to fulfill His own purpose in behalf of a new born race of intelligent beings.

Since writing this article up to this point, I have come across the following quotation under the subject “Spectro­scopy” in the Encyclopedia Brittanica which seems to verify by its incomplete and as I think erroneous conception of elec­trons (as pointed out in subsequent comments) this theory of the “spirituelle” qualities of all forms of matter, with the quo­tation from the same authority from Kelvin, noted further along upon the two subjects of radio-activity and electrical units, both of which are merely illustrations of the universal conditions that subsist as to the active relations of matter to its several qualities.

“Spectroscopy.”

Quotation from page 623, volume 25, last paragraph in first column of Encyclopedia Brittanica, A. D. 1911.

“We must now inquire a little more closely into the mechanical conception of radiation. According to present ideas, the wave originates in a disturbance of electrons within the molecules. The electrons respon­sible for the radiation are probably few and not di­rectly involved in the structure of the atom, which ac­cording to the view at present in favor, is itself made up of electrons. As there is undoubtedly a con­nection between thermal motion and radiation, the energy of these electrons within the atom must be supposed to increase with temperature,”—

or to be affected by other influences causing action and reac­tions between the atoms, ions, or as I choose to call them the radions excited by opposing radions and caused by the differ­entiating “qualities” of matter. It is the “qualities” which are the direct effect of the “disturbance” mentioned in the foregoing quotation and not the “electrons” because no elec­trons can exist until they are excited to action by the apposition of the various “qualities” which give the electrons their birth. We must still go back of “electrons” to account for every energy, or force, displayed in Nature. “Electrons” can exist only as a mode of motion induced by the release of energy pri­marily stored up in the elements of matter as “qualities” of its various forms as their matrix causing the decomposition of the material elements of atoms, causing their expansion and by their material impulse of increased volume create a Kinetic energy known as physical forces.

No physical force exists except as created through some such process—not even electrical force, thought by some to be immanent energy, although not so, as no one ever yet saw a manifestation of it except along the foregoing processes.

This fact is comfirmed since stating it by reference to Encyclopedia Brittannica, page 740, Volume 27 in the words of Kelvin—subject, “Electrical Units” as follows:—“As an elec­trical current is not a thing but a process, ” (mode of motion!) “the unit current can only be reproduced when desired.”

Also under “ Units-Physical.” “The progress of this co-ordination of units has been greatly aided by the discovery that forms of physical energy can be converted into one another’ ’—not a change of what exists per se, but a conversion by method of production by a process different from that which produced other forms of physical energy.

It is not so great a strain upon one’s credulity to believe that Spirit and intelligence existed before matter as it would to believe that matter existed before that which can control matter (although, humanly speaking, to a limited degree) to suit its own purposes; or much less to believe that matter can develop itself into thought and as an essential preparation to provide so complex a medium as the human system, whereby to give thought expression.

Again, what can be more convincing of the eternal (im­mortal) relation of mind to Mind than the universal assurance in all ages of an unseen Power over us?

A thorough understanding of the operations of Nature must reveal the great fact that Nature is everywhere leading up to God as revealed to us in these very qualities of^maCter which were founded in Him and are forever being exercised aggressively and responsively to the influences of other ever­lasting and unifying qualities°of^matter which by such co-ordi­nation have created such magnificent results and which give proof of one single author of both—the Creator of the one and Father of the other.

Creator of matter and charging it with energy. The Father of Mankind breathing his life into it to appear as of His likeness founded within immortal life.

As a final thought ascribing to God the authorship of Natural Law; who shall deny that it is these very qualities of matter that accounts (by their interdependence and co-ordina­tion) for the great law of gravitation; for the great balancing between the centripetal and centrifugal forces which are oper­ating throughout space in obedience to those laws? And thus, that it is God who alone rules the universe and in whom all energy is centered yet reaches out to infinity, and whose government shall be upon the shoulder of one who is called “Wonderful, Counsellor; the Mighty God; Everlasting Father;

To Develop the Thought in Fourth Paragraph on Page Sixteen of “The Spirituelle of Matter.”

All nature to be considered as of a divine origin as an unifying energy which co-ordinates all the multitudinous and differentiated “ qualities of matter” in variant inorganic forms from the lowest to the highest development; i. e., as forms of matter endowed with their respective co-efficients of energy, in order to complete their effective preparation for the still higher development into the organic as the intermediary between inert substance and the higher manifestations of energy, according to a foreordained purpose.

After the preparation for that higher manifestation was complete a new order in the manifestation of energy culminated in the highest order of existence as creatures, not as mere “ things,” capable of apprehending (some—many—of) the pre. ceding processes by which that preparation was effected by being endowed with the characteristics (a degree) of that energy by which the preparation was completed for their existence, in that its “likeness” was bestowed upon them in personal, or, as in entitative, relations ; i. e., as having an identity of being of like type, as a spiritual entity, incapable of extinction or of absorption because of the “determinism” of a supreme pur­pose.

The Prince of Peace”—until the “final consummation unto the end when all things shall be subdued unto Him and the Son be subject unto God who is All in All.”

Who shall read the mighty history of the universe except those who have a hold upon immortality—a history that over­passes all the woes and strifes of human experiences and re­corded in its annals every line clear and distinct to all who choose to open to them.

Shall—can—human aspiration be forever obliterated by the passing of its material garb back into its elements and thus leave no trace of its most valuable possession and raise no question of its “Whence and Whither?” The very form of the question shows a consciousness, abnormally undeveloped though it be, of an immortal relation to an infinite past, present and future which no* man can wholly escape however hard he may try.

Why?

Is not the answer written in the entire Book of Nature as revealed in the Word of God to lead men to study and explore the records of Nature in corroboration of those revelations to men when Science was an unknown dependence of men and as a record of its facts without any existence?

Is not a proved revelation (proved in so many ways and instances) as a leader of thought and of uplift, of greater use to our race than all efforts to disparage it in any way by fallible men who, for faith, present impossible theories which lead to doubt but furnish no valuable proof of their theories?

I think the question supplies its own answer.

THE GREATER VALUES

For among the greater values which are the measure of time—“Time” as unlimited by finite bounds; and Values as fixed by the highest concept of worth based upon complete adap­tation and co-ordination existing between every media through which a complete order has been established everywhere within those bounds and creating values; those values must surely be al­lotted first place in the revelations of Nature which give evidence of a recognition of the perfect adaptation and co-ordination of every element of matter arising out from the etherial state by the exercise of infinite energy, charging it with its own energy, and, crowned by its own likeness; that is, having the power to recognize itself as a part of that which is the fount of all Val­ues Eternal.

There is nothing that can be considered as in any respect approaching such values as that of Consciousness joined with a free-will; as it is the most important exemplification of an intel­ligent purpose in establishing such a magnificent order in Nature which has given to man the beneficient power of appropriation and of appreciation—(responsive Values as of one type) ! And also in this:—that in man alone those same characteristics of consciousness, free-will and intelligent purpose are so highly illustrated as a crown upon the entire order of Nature.

If there be such a thing as worth (intrinsic Value) surely we must find it here as the value of a complete content—Ap­propriation; Appreciation; Consciousness; Free-will; High Pur­pose and embodied in a type of Being like unto his Eternal Auto—Type—as the Eternal Values.

If those eternal values of conscious, intelligent life were to be extinguished as a flame is extinguished it would violate the law of Nature looked at from the materialistic standpoint (to illustrate another law) as it would annul the law of Con­servation of Energy, under the assumption that life is a purely physical product, or a chemical combination; but who ever found the least physical molecule or ion of life anywhere existing in any element of matter? To attempt to recover any such as the prod­uct of chemical action would be folly, being a physical impossi­bility which is a positive proof thas life is not of a ‘physical ori­gin and must belong to an order wholly by itself. Now, what is good law in the physical world may be considered good lav/ in the world out from which the physical arose—the world of Spirit Life. We may therefore apply the like law of ‘ ‘Conserva­tion of Energy” to the world ruled by an “Energy all Divine.’’

I have referred elsewhere to the illustration of a flame in proof that flame and life bear no co-ordinate relation.

Matter in chemical combinations can only produce along the lines of matter whether solids, fluids or in gaseous form all of which are resolvable, or reactive. This cannot be said of organic life and therefore its crowning nature is not physical.

Again as there was no appearance of life in the physical world during the formative ages and not until the preparation for its entry was completed and, then, that life should appear and dominate the media of its manifestations, i. e., directing its every function by its own unaided energy, proves that that life which the organic life is the reflex of, or, as bearing a relation to it, is the only free energy that ever could have dominated in the affairs of nature, and inasmuch as it is doing so under the most complex operations in nature, as now going on, it must likewise have been that dominating energy at the beginning—or Eternal and hence Immortal Life is.

Again, Life cannot be compared to the evanescence of a flame which can rise only from those elements produced by the direct action of life; because of this simple fact, that a flame is supported altogether by the elements of matter which life has supplied and co-ordinated to support combustion not one of which elements are lost (but still remain as matter in some other form) through the paying out of that which they have received from life.^J

On the other hand Life as life needs and gets no support for itself but only for the vehicle of its manifestation in a pro­cess through which it adds to it(instead of taking from) every one of those means which support life; i. e., as of the elements of matter, or, rather the life giving elements of matter which “life” (as free energy) has entered into as constituting and coordinating the life sustaining principle in all the foods of man every one of whose growing operations are dominated by Life, whether it be manifested as life of man, or of beast, bird?, reptiles, plant, or vegetable, as living things.

Life out of Life is the order of Creation as God’s King­dom of Life:

is Life ever remains life—a spiritual fact, and, Matter re­mains matter a physical fact, as the vehicle of operations by life in this material Universe with both constituting the dual relation between the Spiritual and the physical as per Design, the spiritual as Supreme Life everywhere immanent.

To expand the thought on flame (light) herein referred to as being derived from, or made to appear as the result of vibrations caused by the co-ordination of the variant ‘ ‘Quali­ties” of matter which support combustion, let us consider light as the first principle of energy which entered into the constitution of the universe simultaneously with its inception.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;” and God said: “Let there Be Light!” It was the first edict of Him who is Light—the first display of energy in the vast universe and which is the basis of every manifestation of energy throughout the universe to this day and all due to that dormant energy in nature which God implanted from him­self in every atom of matter.

Is this not fully confirmed by the many appearances of comets which give out light and which is probably caused by the intensity of vibrations arising between variant degrees of dormant energy resident within the subliminal element of gase­ous, or, etheric norms ?                                     •

I simply throw out this suggestion as a possibility only, as it belongs to others qualified to pursue such investigations.

In considering the subject of God as Light, we do well to dismiss all sordid, superficial, unethical, or, physical conceptions of light which can be conceived only as, in part, a reflex of, or as a refraction from Him and to behold that light as the great illum­inating energy variant in degree that affords an insight into “The Deep Things of God” as well as to radiate the fact of a terrestrial existence.

I wish to state also here that any theory herein expressed, not fully borne out by arguments which are absolute proof of them, shall be referred to like competent investigators; as my sole object in writing down these thoughts is that men of “high, or of low degree” may return to the right conception of this glori­ous universe and that we may all be brought back into a full conception of Truth as through a complete “Consciousness of God^,, in nature and over all, and, specifically that those who are made “in his likeness” should bear their first fruit, by living as in that likeness and thereby manifesting that ever “Consci­ousness of God.”

LIFE AS FREE ENERGY

Note the Kinetic power of human action through the powers of the human will as the result of thought demonstrated by written word, speech, and the many other ways by which thought is made to accomplish great deeds.

One instance is that by which it moves vast masses of thinking men and builds vast works as compared with the sim­ple power of impregnation of molecules of matter with emana­tions from itself as the great fount of all Energy.

Persistence of Types.

A simple illustration of the persistence of Types as depending upon an arbitrary law of existence of like producing like as experienced in a life of seventy-five years, during sixty’ eight years of observation, noted first as a boy.

It occurred in the line of Arboriculture, in which graft­ing of fruit scions, such as budding and stem grafting takes place, by budding a pear stem upon apple stock. The juices or sap of the apple tree nourished the pear stem which, of course, yielded pear fruit.

The reason for this was the fixed “determination” of a living, although invisible pear nuclei existing as the energy capable of producing only its own kind within the original pear stem only, and not in the fruit, as I am told pear seeds do not produce the same flavor or shape as its own fruit and yet are the source of its varieties. This is corroborated by another illustration in the case of a variety of apples known as Spitzen- bergs, which, for the same period of time stated, can be grown solely from grafts from stem or bud cut from a branch that has borne Spitzenberg apples, which, in flavor, shape and coloring, are quickly recognized as such in its fruitage. It seems to me to be the law, of some kinds at least, of fruit propagation. It cannot be caused by any process of evolution, inasmuch as the seeds of the fruit provides us with so vast a number of varieties which cater to diversified tastes of man. Is there not some significance in both of these facts—a determinism founded upon some predetermined act or relation, and a useful or pleas­urable result in ministry to the comfort and pleasure of our race ?

The Vibratory Co-Efficient

I believe that every primary element of matter has its vibrant co-efficient, any combination of elements would make it difficult, perhaps impossible, to ascertain the exact vibratory content.

If any primary element could be found to respond to vibra­tions of different intensities under just the right conditions and all the effects upon structure, action, etcetera, be completely recorded it might be possible to measure its co-efficient of energy for each and every purpose to which that element could be utilized; that is, if its atomic content was formed under vibratory action. But what would be the result ? Disintegra­tion and absorption into or neutralized by the energy expended in the process ? Such a result could not result in physical increase or utility, but only as settling a scientific fact as to the nature of material elements.

It occurs to my mind that that vibrant co-efficient would have to be under the excitation of some forms of light, or induced by light of like characteristics and conditions that pre­vailed under which these elements were formed.

ENERGY—ALL DIVINE—IS LIFE

Under the operations in the inorganic world of nature, energy is released through the co-ordinating effects of the qualities of matter, of variant forms under the established order of things according to the commands of natural law; but, in the organic world that energy acts directly through the sole energy of life whose highest characteristics known to mortals are Will and purpose and every attribute of Life Infinite being as a re­script of every other covering all Perfection.

Since placing the Ms. in the hands of the printer, I insert the fol­lowing Note in order to amplify and justify the devotional conceptions of the Attributes which Religion has ascribed to the Great First Cause of all existence.

The occasion of this insert arose after reading Part I., especially Sec­tions 31 and 32 of Herbert Spencers “First Principles” and after I had finished my work.

This also applies to the note at the end of the subject matter under the title of “Energy—All Divine—Is Life” controverting his argument rel­ative to the “Unconditioned” as being inconceivable by the “Conditioned.”)

Note:—Those Attributes of Perfection are as a pure Energy and can­not be “Unconditioned,” inasmuch as they are comprehensive of every ascription to an entity under such Attributes as Life, Spirit, Love, Truth, Light, God, Father, Mind, Intelligence, etcetera, being what we may call different manifestations of One Reality Known to us as Life and which have a fully recognized relation with the Infinite Cause from whence all things were caused to exist and which are typically (not symbolically) manifested in the ideals of Perfection from every view-point of the human mind by which to express the highest conceptions of which the human intellect and affections are capable of; and, being in responsive harmony with such ideals, arising as they do from their inspiring Anti-Type, or, as Like producing Like, or as corresponding with Like, or Type with Type.

Although “incomprehensible” as it is to us, yet we find the same “conditions” to exist in reference to the human mind which cannot know its own full power, nor set a limit to that power; and, which therefore rep­resents the only conceivable and incontestible “likeness,” howbeit only in a degree, of that pure Energy which is over “all and in All.”

In speaking of the human mind as the only conceivable likeness to that pure Energy, it is rational to say that things that exist have a vital relation to the “Cause” of their existence and constitute the only logical evidence by which to conceive and judge of that “Cause.” It institutes the only method, or way, by which we can arrive at the truth in regard to all existence—finite or infinite.

In the organic world it is light alone, primarily (as heat is alone caused by retarded light due to the interception of light rays) that arouses the co-operation, or, reactions and co-ordin­ations between the dormant energies of radio-active, vaporizing, attractive, or, repulsive, or, other characteristic qualities of matter that brings the material elements (whether gaseous, or solids) into co-ordination, and, through which the various forces in nature are rendered active and (which) generate Kinetic action, or, conscious effects; conscious not to themselves but to sentient beings of an advanced order;—i. e., of a type infinitely beyond an order of mere things which are merely endowed with ‘‘qualities” which partake of creative energy but under limita­tion of localized, or, corporeal (material) forms.

This Being of an advanced Order” bears no compara­ble relation to the order of mere “Things,” inasmuch as all of its functions, or, operations are manifested along altogether differ­ent planes which the latter (“things”) are wholly designed to serve and over which it is capable of exercising a limited con­trol, subject only to above conditions.

That order of “Beings” represents all that which pos­sesses and represents the true, or, eternal Values in a material universe—the Values of Being or conscious Existence which can alone be the primal or generic source of Energy everywhere manifested throughout the bounds of Space and Time and com­prehensibly designated as Life capable of entering into every manifestation which can appeal to its own consciousness, plan­ning for the multitudinous manifestations and co-ordinations of that unitive Energy and “breathing” forth out from an etherial nothingness “volitions” which vibrate with energy and under whose equilibrations (finished concepts), those volitions have resolved into concrete material forms as arising out of a cre­ative energy and which are embodied therein as the vital en­ergy resident in every form of matter unto its ultimate limita­tions—and, such Being is Life—vibrant.

That Life has been handed down from the Infinite Life to permeate the finite and as such to reproduce itself in the finite as the reflex of itself that Man may “Know thyself” as to his “Whence and Whither.”

This giving of himself through his all Supreme and re­flex energy to the finite, necessitates the various and multitu­dinous adaptations of that energy throughout all the stages of creation and onward throughout all enduring world systems, from the very rudiments of elemental or inorganic matter unto its highest and most complex organic forms, and which are rendered essential to the embodiment of that typical and reflex energy which alone is Life itself and hence—Immortal—having its culmination in the human race according to design, and of a setting apart an order of beings to occupy a new sphere of ex­istence in which a new relation is created and a race born into the family of God; and, in His likeness, having one Father, and, each individual having an established relation to God as Father, and to each other as His children and who marked by lineaments in his own separate personality traced by lines of identity, which shall never be effaced, but which, as immortals, shall persist eternally in characteristics illumined by celestial light.

Those characteristics will no doubt be as, or more, dis­tinctly recognized among immortals as among mortals under full play of all their faculties.

This life immortal is conscious Being, and in its essence wholly unrelated to things created, which possess no reasoning consciousness of iSs existence nor much less to question origin nor predicate its future, either as to time nor as to eternity.

Those who sow to the flesh, i. e., regarding only material existence, are likened unto “brute beasts that perish” in that neglecting the things of the spirit they become blinded to the contemplation of those things which the spirit alone can reveal— their organs of sense becoming atrophied from non-use.

In the organic world it was essential that Life should appear as an active, self-directing energy in order to initiate impulse yet dependent upon co-ordinating conditions, i. e., the organism must be such that it is capable of responding to the conditions under which life can alone direct the operations of that organism by co-ordinating all of its chemical or other operations through the transmutations of one form of matter into others as a fit “temple” for its own finite in-dwelling— finite as the sources of its sustenance derived from transient forms wherein is written decay, as of “Earth to Earth.”

Even when an organ be separated from its original cor­poreal locus it requires the skillful handling of an expert living practitioner and a living torso similar to that from which it was separated in order to continue its function in a new situation, as well as that its own organism be perfect. Such a situation is a well known process in arboriculture, etcetera, and in both there must be those life responsive qualities embodied in the transplanted organic matter which can respond to the living energy of a living stock in exact co-operation.

Outside of Life there exists no self-directing energy any­where in nature; a momentous fact unless it can be proved otherwise. But it cannot!

“Finite ” is written upon every organic body ; the Why is wrapped in secrecy to finite beings; “Earth to Earth” is the order of organic Life, of unlimited personalities for unlim­ited earthly generations of immortals of Earth age continuity; were it not so people would crowd the land.

Life out from Life is infinite, without limitation, wheth­er as a “root” or as a “vine of many branches.”

It is much more probable that life should spring from life than that it should spring out from that which is without life.

Things immortal belong to life.

Life is! Therefore Life is immortal. Life and Energy are synonymous.

Energy and matter create physical forces.

Free or Supreme Energy, having power to create must also possess power to transmute.

Neither matter nor energy could create themselves out from nothing. Therefore, as we know that material or inor­ganic forms made up out of atoms, or its subliminal elements, as well as the dual relation of inorganic forms did not, at one time, exist as such, and as we also know that energy also exists, and also that it dominated all matter in some form by bringing it into existence and lying dormant therein we must admit that energy existed before matter could possibly exist.

Again, if energy could not create itself, and as it neces­sarily must have existed before matter, the ultimate fact remains that Energy is Eternal. What more fitting conception can we have of it than as a living, all-wise, all-powerful Being as God over All in All ? To be clothed by human consciousness as with attributes, a noted scientist to the contrary, which ever demand the highest, deepest and noblest expressions of the human mind and affections; or, as entirely opposed to all sen sous contaminations which lead to, and only to, degradation of man’s dual nature.

The only energy that exists in the universe of inorganic matter that is apparent to physical sense is that which we find to lay dormant in matter, or its elements; hence, all generated or Kinetic forces are physical only in secondary relations. Now, as matter is absolutely inert, physical forces are not due, primarily, to matter but to that established energy residing in it, being caused to act by natural law in our Solar system under that vast fount of light radiating from its luminary, the Sun, as its centre.

This present condition of our Solar system does not imply that light may not have been an accompaniment of an incan­descence of our globe at an early stage, and later of a bursting forth at many vents which would cause gradations of light and heat in contiguous territory favorable to luxurious vegetation and to the various processes which have evidently gone on during its earlier stages; that light being one of the estab­lished facts in nature as representative to physical sense may be likened to one of the attributes of Deity, or of an Energy all Supreme ‘ ‘ enlightening every man that cometh into the world that is, set as the enlightener of all not self-blinded to his effulgent rays.

“God is Light:”—Whose energising powers form the foundations of the universe swinging through space to a divine symphony in one grand harmony between creature (created things) and Creator.

Note:—In “First Principles” where Spencer in Sections 31 and 32 inveighs against entertaining conceptions of (his) “Unconditioned”—the “Unknown Cause;”—by the “Conditioned”—the human mind; he abso­lutely overlooks the fact that he has stultified himself by his theories in regard to according attributes to that Unknown Cause by others by doing that very self-same thing, in that he ascribes to his “Unconditioned” Some­thing, the “Attributes” of a “Cause.”

An “Unknown Cause” so “transcentally great” that intelligence at­tributed to it would become a “degradation” of it (how did he figure that out ?), and yet he says (inferentially) that that Cause concerned itself with the formation of atoms which make up the universe of matter—not one of its elements able to ratiocinate upon itself nor of its ‘ ‘Cause. ’ ’ A very sat­isfying “Condition” for Spencer’s ideals.

On the other side of the same relative relation we find man endowed with life, conscious of himself and all the relations thereof, with full power of reason and its relation to conscious life anywhere and everywhere and capable of realizing and enforcing the grandest ideals to which that life may be developed in noble living by cultivating high conceptions of respon­sibility and accountability for his every act in relation thereto, or, as bear­ing upon, his relation to that high source from which that life has issued.

If that “Cause” has stooped to concern itself with mere atoms, where does the “degradation” come in when intelligent human beings who are the grandest product of that “Cause,” with whom that Cause must also have concerned itself, exercise the powers of their type still farther by ascribing to the Creator of atoms the “Attributes” of “Cause;” while others who see in the Creator of All things, an incomprehensible Being who has, out of nothing, constituted atoms in the inorganic world, and, in certain other atoms of the organic world endowed with a mind to apprehend (which atoms cannot do) that Being, although in some faint degree, ascribe to Him the appellation of God; or the Infinite Mind or other Attributes which that free spirit in man conceives of a pure spirit—as Life, Light, Love, the Al­mighty Father, the All in All, or, by any other Attribute which a grateful being may choose, devotionally to bestow ?

Which is the better of the two—an inexpressible (?) recognition (?) by inert atoms, or, an atrophied sense, or—a devotional ascription of attri­butes expressing the conceptions of conscious and intelligent creatures ?

That is;—which conforms the closest to human reason as well as to the intuitive, or universal sense of our race ?

To say of some, or, of any asserted “Cause” which we admit as pro­ducing an effect, such as originating atoms or the elements of matter, that the “Cause” is “Unconditioned” would be an absurdity, because of the fact that it bears a relation to its own work and that to identify the work is, to give some kind of an identity to the workman ?

It would be a refusal of the strongest evidence to reject the testimony which the act has accomplished if we deny the actor as comprehensible by the evidence of His Works.

Spencer’s whole argument therefore is absurd, or, disingenuous when he tries to prove that a Creator is positively “Unknowable” through human conception, and is a mere recrudescence of the Sophists, mixed with the ancient Greek practice of religion in erecting temples “Unto the Unknown God. ” Oh! for another Paul.

One might as well argue that because the quality in a peach or any other fruit or food which gives to each their recognizable flavor or odor is ‘ ‘unknowable, ’ ’ and that we must not give to these flavors or odors the appellation of sweetness, delicious or other qualities that may distinguish each; nor to apply any term of distinction to the various forms of fruit, food, &c., only because we cannot know the peculiar inter-relation of flavors to their corpus, as the media of their manifestation!

It is “inconceivable’’ that there can be such a thing as an unrelated relation as between Cause and Effect anywhere in nature, nor any elsewhere.

A very simple illustration of man’s perversity in obstructing spiritual illumination by drawing the dense veil of prejudice, self-will, or ignorance and indifference in uncovering unpalatable (to him) facts, is that of one shutting out the light of the sun by drawing an opaque curtain before all the apertures for light in a room—the apertures are there under his own control! but—?

ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrations of the excitation of the dormant energies resident in all matter.

Water as to its “ evaporative qualities, etc.”

Water is subject to many various influences as light, wind, gravitation, attraction, etcetera.

As to the influence of light we find that the water inter­cepting by its resistance to the penetration of its rays produces heat; heat acting upon the evaporative qualities of water causes its molecules to expand until vapor, which is necessarily lighter (by reason of such expansion) than water, arises from it; which vapor, by reason of its expanded and heat content, becomes lighter than the air; and, because of the qualities of air to ab­sorb a certain portion of vaporized water, we have air more or less saturated with vapor invisible up to the point of full satura­tion, when, by some unknown (to me) process this vapor seg­regates into cloud (attraction of like particles probably.)

To anticipate a little, I remark here that this kind (by heat only) of evaporation has not been accompanied by friction and thus has not generated any potential force within the vapor and hence none within the cloud formed by such vapor and therefore those clouds will not be storm clouds, but perhaps simple rain, or, mere vapor like steam to be readily absorbed by currents of drier air.

But, when light falls upon an impenetrable surface after passing through the air which slightly retards its rays produc­ing a certain volume of heat absorbed by the air, it becomes still more retarded by the greater resistance to passage and causes a still greater intensity of heat to the earth’s surface which becoming reflected back into the air causes it to expand and thereby reducing its weight, quantitively, until it becomes so rarefied over large spaces as to cause a partial vacuum; so that outlying territory, or upper strata of air not so highly rare­fied rush in with great velocity (force or Kinetic energy) to fill the partial void.

Now, under this Kinetic force the winds pass over vast areas of water creating friction and generating “electrons/ ’ which, because of the absorbing qualities of the air absorb vapor and with it certain electrons generated by friction between the wind and water, to charge, or, temporarily store electricity in such vapor and by the “quality” or power of condensation to form into clouds from which, under certain other conditions, both are released under forms of rain, lightning, fire balls and the like.

I do not think an enumeration of other instances can add any emphasis to the great fact stated in the first paragraph of Illustrations; believing that there is not an element of matter in which these dormant energies of matter but what are more or less affected unto activity through the effect of light at some stage or another of our celestial and terrestrial order; as being the true, practical and economic law of nature which has never revealed, nor ever will, a single instance where any force or energy acted in any other way than indirectly; except in or­ganic matter as the direct action of Life, and, at the genesis of matter which must necessarily ante-date every Natural Law.

CONSTITUTION OF MATTER

One theory of the differences between elements of matter may be assumed; that at the genesis of those elements gene­ration occurred under a volition of energy as an original or prime mover generating motion at various degrees of intensity and at the end of such volition, purpose having been accom­plished, an equilibration occurred among or to the vibrations which by some farther process, may be, took on some physical form the differences of which—in kind—are due to varied inten­sity of vibrations which, still governed by the volitions, causing equilibration; the prime result of equilibration being matter charged with dormant energy in its concrete or physical forms.

As volition or Will, as the known characteristic of Life alone, is found only in organic life long after inorganic exist­ence has furnished means for its subsistence and means for its expression (in its dual relation); it is not unreasonable to assume that during that process and eternally prior to it that there ex­isted an energy which all elements of matter are charged with and that that energy was a Supreme Will exercising volition in all ways. It is not reasonable to assume that Energy created itself (Scientifically “unthinkable”) nor that it is a physical “content” as it cannot be located as such content because there is no appearance anywhere in nature outside of its dormancy in matter as a heritage; except as before stated in organic life.

The final conclusion must be that if life alone at the con­summation of things material is the only prime mover through­out the physical universe, there could have been no other prime mover at the genesis of things [than Life as the great energiz­ing force in that universe.

REMARKS

It is far more consistent with the strictest rules of sci­entific research to lay the greater stress upon the better grounded theory or that which is the most reasonable as con­nected with established facts: I offer this postulate in refer­ence to the established truth upon which every science must depend in every search for facts—that every effect has its cause.

My argument, illustrations and assumed analysis of the genesis of matter takes full cognizance of this basic law from which I desire to fully emphasize the inevitable and most reasonable conclusion that inasmuch as Science has finally set­tled down to the theory “that matter is generated through or by way of (as I understand it—no other way seeming possible) the equilibration of “electrons,” that such a theory leaves a very wide gap in accounting for those “electrons.”

It is an indisputable fact supported by any and every ex­periment that electrical effects while appearing as under several forms, among which electrons may appear as the original ele­ment, it still remains the fact that those electrons are only sec­ondary; as they appear only after matter has already taken on form and been in frictional contact among its atoms.

As to the present conclusions of Science as to the form­ation of matter, is it npt more reasonable to assume that in the genesis of matter that there must be an initiating cause? This is evident; because of its (Science) fixity upon “electrons” as the basic energy underlying matter. The fact is that those electrons are only secondary to matter itself—that is, they arise out of matter already formed, or in process of formulation, under frictional (or equivalent) contact and stored under equilibration of its energy within its atoms in its positive and negative forms in certain forms of matter,*not all.

If we assume that electrons are the starting point of mat­ter we must assume that electrons were either eternal or that they created themselves. We know they could not do the latter neither were they the former because we know that they are only secondary, or frictional effects, and not causes.

With this elimination of electrons as explaining the origen of matter the way has been prepared for our final postulates as a recognizable basis for all scientific research.

For, if “electrons” which have no physical status is an existence as some scientists have asserted permitting of no physical analysis, it is not inconsistent to assume that that thing which is the inciting cause of those electrons is much the more entitled to be classed as a superior existence; and, by pursuing the analysis still farther (if that was necessary and possible) to assume the theory of a Supreme Existence out from which every Energy in Nature has had its origin as being in true agreement with the facts.

In fact the universal operations seen and recognized in nature demand the mental stimuli that no investigation is com­plete until we have accounted for conditions out from which the things investigated have come into existence; for there never will, nor ever can, be found under the most searching in­vestigations of all or any incipient physical conditions that will ever reveal any explanations of them as showing an origin as arising under Natural Law which the materialist bases his in­vestigations wholly upon, in face of the fact that they arose before Natural Law had any basis for operation.

I offer this also as proof that “Volition” expressing itself as a pure Will is in no way dependent upon the operation of Natural Law and therefore is not subjected to the same pro­cesses of development, but upon another code entirely; a code wholly educational and with moral instincts intuitively sugges­tive of its divine origin, and under which relations it lies under the highest obligations of conformity to its type.

It seems like a waste of energy in attempting to elicit a theory of the origin of matter if we neglect to consider the only possible predecessor of matter, which must and ever will remain “unknowable” unless we exercise the right to a compari­son with the character of the only existing type which can and does dominate it—this very waste of energy under the physi­cal law of “conservation of energy” places that effort outside of the law of physics as herein contended and as proving the existence of two distinct natures which all ought to recognize as the Spiritual and Physical; the former creative of the latter and permeating it, although from its very nature undiscernible by any analysis (although discovered by its effects), while the latter certainly cannot create nor develop the former through any chemical, or other process, because no physical product re­sults from them, inasmuch as the elements that entered into these processes are quantitively the same physically although changed in form but not lessened at all: whereas, if the chemi­cal action produced thought the elements entering into the pro­cess must be lessened by as much as the expenditure had en­tered into thought and, finally ought to be resolved back into matter. I doubt that any chemist will ever be found willing to guarantee such recovery.

POSTULATES

First—That there cannot be any such thing as self-generation. There must be co-ordination between two at least prece­dent thereof, or co-terminus.

Second—This involves the generic law of cause and effect. Third—There can be no effect anywhere without its cause.

Fourth—Every effect predicates a Cause.

Fifth—In the Universe we see wonderful effects.

Sixth—Hence there must be a Cause.

Seventh—For unity of action there can be but One Cause.

Eighth—The existence of that Cause, without generation, necessitates eternity of being.

Ninth—Hence, A Being, which means Life, Light (Intelli­gence), Power (Energy), over All in All—Cause.

Tenth—That investigations of any object become more practi­cal and effective as we arrive at actual facts, or those truths bordering facts which we are unable to fully uncover, from present knowledge, and by striving to get at primary sources.

Eleventh—We should not base conclusions upon theories derived from secondary causes as against unclear or probable pri­mary causes, even if the latter be not fully proved when those secondary cause theories are disproved.

Twelfth—Reason demands that we accept evidence which is the most reasonable and comprehensive, excluding none; especially that which includes consciousness as the identifyer both of organic and inorganic existence and of their dual and interlocking relations within a great First Cause the grand denouement of which so clearly points to a preparation for its physical manifestation and hence as the child of Design and in “His Image.”

NATURAL LAW

That which we call natural law is but a natural process compulsorily operative under express or preparatory conditions which bespeak a preconceived preparation and adaptation of multifarious and correlative, yet independent parts, capable of entering into co-ordination and co-operation. A law coter­minal] y operative according as the preparations made for these operations are complete. It must therefore be a law growing out from compulsion by a pre-agency as the founder of that law ; such compulsion being determined by the relation of the co-operative energies stored up in their respective matrices of atoms or subliminal divisions thereof.

Supreme Energy implies manifold attributes so as to appear under many forms of volition, one of which I wish to consider under its highest known manifestations in the human race as Organic-Energy as Life.

Organic energy can be exerted to the point of breaking down its vehicle of operation: e. g., a man’s mental energy can be so exerted as to break down his physical body—it often occurs, which proves his mental forces as being the dominating force ; if it were otherwise, and the body being the creator of those energies, the energy could not be exerted beyond the capacity of the body to create, as flux can occur only from some higher impulse. That is, the flux is determined physi­cally by the initiating impulse supplied by the balance between the bodily forces themselves, at or near zero, and can at no time exceed the initiative impulse.

Taking these two distinct features of organic and inor­ganic matter into comparison proves that both are controlled by exactly reverse application of energies. One by “volition” the other by natural law, one unlimited by law, the other limited under that law, but compulsory by the necessities demanded for the complete co-ordination and balancing of the forces of nature operating within such organic body which require that they work at all times in complete harmony with each other, as any interruption between such operations would cause schism within the body.

Hence we have Volition and Natural Law operating in nature.

Assuming that these two forces or guiding principles ex­press the manner of their operating throughout all nature, and thus themselves proving their existence and dual relationship, let us briefly consider the method of their operations in the or­der primarily of their importance causally.

We have therefore, primarily, “Volition,” as a free Agent unlimited and unconfined, considered by itself as an entity; in­asmuch as whatever can be considered as an ultimate Cause must have accorded to it the character of an entity, or free agent whether it be assumed to be some “unknowable” energy or some recognized Being as such Cause.

“Volition” as free Agent implies a living and self-oper­ating energy and when unconfined is capable of exercising itself in all directions and in all manner of ways while in all respects it will be consistent to itself as an uncontaminated, or pure, en­ergy. For our present purposes we wish to express its meaning as a living Energy representative of a pure Will and that every manifestation of that will that wherever and whenever it may occur that manifestation itself should be pure, or to reflect its own type. This volition has had its only full development in the human race; as man alone can be said to reflect that char­acteristic, which however has become dependent upon prepar­atory conditions capable of and charged with that living, will- begotten energy; and, which conditions must of necessity be such as shall be capable of instant response to the volitions as they arise; all of which are found to exist in the highest type of organic life and which as before stated are subject to its con­trol even to the extent of causing disintegration, or disorgan­ization of its vehicle of manifestations.

But as we have assumed that this intelligent volition that characterizes the human race has become only possible through an organic stage preparatory to its full development (which preparation proves design) within that organism, it also eluci­dates the fact that a semi-conscious organism was essential for intermediary forms of living and conscious, moving creatures; having possibly sufficient development of structure to permit of the exercise of will but so far only as it applies to every other form of the order of moving creatures below man, of exactly the same degree of development, and, for the development of instincts to provide sustenance and other requirements, which are clearly discernable in the higher orders of animal life.

This organic life can be traced down through various characteristics of cellular life from the lowest forms of animal into the vegetable kingdom of life; below which we come to an order of existence called inorganic but yet upon which all or­ganic life depends by reason of the “Spirituelle of Matter.”

As to things inorganic, we find like provisions made throughout the inorganic Universe as continually being supplied to meet every want of man; both as to his physical needs and to his mental (there is yet one higher stage—the Immortal) de­velopment; still, along lines of strictly physical needs.

That “provision” exists, in that every subliminal portion of matter has been charged (from only one source) with posi­tive characteristics of energy, which I have called the “Quali­ties” of matter, by or through which all nature is called upon to contribute to the sustenance and well-being of man, not exer­cising volition but operating under the compulsion of the arbi­trary laws of nature.

Is there any connection to be seen between the founda­tions of a universe and man as its crowning glory; and that man possessing characteristics by which such stupendous results were alone carried on?

Does not such a series of wonderful developments in but this one little world of ours burst forth with evidence of a providential foresight which one can scarcely call by any other name than Design? and that it speaks louder than words as a “still small voice” of inward conviction of that primeval source of all creative, sustaining, inspiring and illuminating power upon which the universe of matter depends, and, as the source of all purity and dependence of whom man in his highest character­istic should be the expression of “His likeness” as the Bible alone has revealed it, and, also that as a deep conviction and demonstration of its truth, man may feel it as that conviction thrills throughout his whole being?

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To Be (existence) demands that there be an order of conscious Life capable not only of cognizance of itself but also of “things” to which it has become related in many directions as dependencies for its own physical manifestations. These relations include not only cognizance of self but also cognizance of self’s correlative attributes, in which conception and the determinism by which the co-ordination of various elements, are later to supply the inciting cause of such manifestations, constitute “germinal nuclei”[1] of every conceptional form in which “all their members are written when as yet there are none of them. ’ ’

These relations are imperative for the purpose of establishing an order, or process in Nature which shall be (I believe is) immutable in its operations and thus to establish its own Order of life within physical life and thereby give full evidence of its relation to Organic Life.

But as Organic Life must depend upon a condition of preparation for it under the order of inorganic ‘ ‘things,” there must be an intimate re­lation between the vehicle of manifestation and that order of life of many forms for which Inorganic “things” were prepared, or ‘‘determined;’’ and hence “To Be” must have an intimate connection with “things” in their objective relations.

This “order of life” gives sanction to an existence both of Organic life and of Inorganic things as arising out from an eternal unity of Being inasmuch as both have issued from one source.

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[1]Note—“Germinal nuclei” in organic forms already determined “when as yet there were none of them”—i. e., not a member had been yet formed—may in a small degree be compared to the preliminary state of the human mind in many respects which J would illustrate in a way familiar to many,

I refer to a condition everywhere operating in the realm of human activities wherein new methods and new means are being continuously brought into operation in order to at­tain to certain results in which are called into play the powers of the human mind in a cer­tain order, or somewhat as follows:

Suggestion, conception (planning) and execution.

Suggestion, or a desire for a something whereby a certain result may be attained may not amount to anything except one plans the means to accomplish it. The suggestion or rude conception of a something is very vague but the providing of the means by which to  give that something shape or form very often involves the most intense concentration of the mind, and in certain conditions or necessities requires the widest range of thought and the application of many fundamental principles, all of which have to be considered or planned for in the most accurate manner, so that all the elements or integers of construction shall operate in exact relations, or co-ordinate one with the other and all in exact harmony.

All this has to bepre-conceived in the thought before aline is laid to give a basis for the lines, and finally when every line is laid which has existed in the mind or thought of the originator then we have come to every member thereof as the “germinal nuclei” as deter­mined in the mind of the originator of those members “while as yet there were none of them.”

This process involves thought along lines of the “non-existent” or the “un-con­ditioned” but which by human thought are brought out from the “unconditioned” into the “conditioned,” which gives a positive relation of the “conditioned” with the conditioner and constitutes the most positive evidence of their relations.

(2—2). To human consciousness, or of failure to comprehend it.

3. The point I wish to make here is that those who refuse to recognize any evidence as to an existence, even though unapparent to physical sense, run counter to all scientific ideals, such as are based wholly upon fundamental law.

Suggestions as to Immortality of Man’s Spiritual Life.

Or Life as capable of possessing and maintaining the characteristics of personality.

In the lower forms of organic life, life is one of degrees of energy, although undoubtedly of a greater intensity than that which is represented in any of the forms of the spirituelle of matter (in which that energy lies dormant), and, although those lower living forms die, their life under a law of con­servation of energy again merges back into the great fount of free energy from whence it proceeded as determined by the setting apart for the purpose of a special order of life where­with to supply the principle of life to the lower order of organic existence.

This was notably done in relation to the higher forms of organic life constituting humanity; at death, “returning to God who gave it, ’’ but in which humanity received, in addition thereto, a special order of life which constituted man as being “in the likeness of God,” and which was typified by “God breathing into his nostrils the breath (typical of his essence) of life and man became a living soul,” constituting “a being” as man but a little lower than the angels of God in this : that angels are not subjected to the limitations of corporeal or mate­rial forms.   •

But, it may be objected that if the lower order of life can be merged into that energy from which it issued (which was a specialization) why will not human souls (above that of phys­ical life) also merge back into its source when its physical life leaves its tenement of clay? The answer plainly must be, that the purposes of God must stand, whether as to all creation or as to the giving of himself to the objects of His power and of His Love, and more especially that the soul of man is of the breath or “essence” of God.

The subjects of Infinite power and Love and “ likeness ” are—must be—as immortal in their nature and personality as are the material things, or elements, in their nature, i. e., as being under a corresponding law, or as proceeding from one intelligent and determined purpose in both cases. It would seem that there can be no doubt about this.

The “organic” indicates the entrance of life as an endow­ment, not as a development, and certainly not as an evolution.

 

The End